[35] Design for a brewhouse, ND, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Kirkdale House, Galloway: variant designs for a house, stables, offices, farm range, brewhouse, bridge and cottage for Sir Samuel Hannay, 3rd Baronet, 1786-88, executed in part (43)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/41

Purpose

[35] Design for a brewhouse, ND, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a two-storey, three-bay brewhouse comprising a main brewing and washing room with a staircase to the rear. The central bay has a coat of arms above the door and is flanked by buttresses with a stepped parapet above containing a cross. The elevation is adorned with square-headed and lancet-arched windows, as well as hood moulding, string coursing, machicolated cornices, and corbelled corner bartizans with pepper-pot roofs

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan & Elevation of a new Design for the Brewhouse at Kirkdale / (in the hand of William Adam) the Seat of Sir Samuel Hannay Bart. / (in a different hand) Brewhouse & Washhouse / 26 by 18 / Laundry above / (verso) no 9 / no 9 / These Plans [_ _ _ _] go 7th into the book

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Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (279x467)

Watermark

C G surmounted by a cartouche with a fleur de lis above

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 20
King, 2001, p. 245
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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